RE: Olympus D10 & Canon Eos D3 (I need help)

["Barry Kelsall" <bktimes@jps.net>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>> I would not expect either one of these cameras to be more durable than the
> EOS N1s. If your criteria is durability and flash accuracy the Nikon D-1
> is your camera. It will be cheaper in the long run.
>
> Daniel

Many years ago, when I started in photography, I bought a Minolta 35mm
system. Good glass and good value, or so I thought. I was having the camera
bodies repaired yearly, at considerable expense. I sold the Minoltas and
bought Nikon. Excellent glass, and bulletproof reliability. Without question
the Nikons saved me money in the long run. Decades later they still function
flawlessly, after only one trip for repair, and that was under warranty.

However, to my thinking, any digital camera has a life expectancy of about 3
or 4 years tops, due simply to the breakneck pace of current development.
Four years from now the Nikon D series will be what, 8 or 10 megapixel? How
much faster? I am just guessing, but I am pretty confident even a D1 will be
a quaint relic then. I am much more concerned about the durability of my
1200 and 1160 Epsons (to bring this thread back on topic)

> i assume you mean Olympus E-10... and thats the one I have chosen
> over the
> D30 and others.
> C. David Tobie

The Olympus web site states this camera will be available sometime in
November. They don't even list detailed specs, yet you speak as though you
have one in hand. This does look like a great camera. Too bad the LCD lacks
the full swivel of the Canon PowerShot Pro70, which I own. I have four main
concerns about this camera - what is the delay while saving these large
images, how large are the RAW files (MB), how good is the glass and how
rugged is the construction? Other Olympus digitals suffer from pretty severe
barrel distortion and feel like cheap toys. The Canon Pro70 saves RAW files
of only 2MB. The Olympus web site mentions something about 11MB image data,
but it is not clear if that is the file size.
-BK

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